But I had to do it, as I just finished the 10 episodes and I have so much confusing emotions. I'll try to sum up as best as possible:
1-This is a very well made documentary from the entertainment perspective, and to debate on the American culture / legal system. Despite the content of the case in question (we ll get to that), as an European it's utterly shocking the tactics that are used in court and specially the sentences given by the courts - specially on Avery's first case.
2- The documentary is highly biased, and you can see it from minute 1. One would have think that at the end there would be a major conspiracy proved, and that is not the case (Im again stunned by some reviews I have seen here, or the petitions that I've read were made). The truth is that even with a very biased documentary, you don t have to have a much bigger IQ than Mr. Avery to think of what a huge leap of faith would be to assume it was a Police conspiracy. The amount of resources, luck, people, that would have to be involved in this are just impossible and ridiculous to assemble. Again, tactics in court by the Defense are trying to prove this by all means, but you know it just doesn t make sense.
3- All this supposedly is because of Avery's revenge on his first sentence. Apparently the police as something against him since he was a kid and now is framing him, according to the documentary creators. Let's just think simple here - It s not hard to get that this was a troublemaker, violent guy in his youth. Incompetence and stereotype wrongly made the cops assume he was the rapist. Eventually they would now hate him for the compensation / trials on them. But again, to make such a cinematic conspiracy is just insane.
4 - Yes, strange things still happened. The blood tube is on the top. The utterly stupid decisions of not crushing the car or keeping the key. The lack of any dna / blood on almost every place. But still, these sound 1/10 of the insanity of again having a massive conspiration for a guy who is on the hotspot.
5 - I feel sorry for the kid. One does not know at the end what was his involvement, and you can clearly see is just a very limited 16 year old kid who apparently was influenced by his grown up uncle. 50 years in jail? Again, go to point 1.
Why a 6? Because on one hand had me made my first review and on the other for the exact same reason :)
Cheers
1-This is a very well made documentary from the entertainment perspective, and to debate on the American culture / legal system. Despite the content of the case in question (we ll get to that), as an European it's utterly shocking the tactics that are used in court and specially the sentences given by the courts - specially on Avery's first case.
2- The documentary is highly biased, and you can see it from minute 1. One would have think that at the end there would be a major conspiracy proved, and that is not the case (Im again stunned by some reviews I have seen here, or the petitions that I've read were made). The truth is that even with a very biased documentary, you don t have to have a much bigger IQ than Mr. Avery to think of what a huge leap of faith would be to assume it was a Police conspiracy. The amount of resources, luck, people, that would have to be involved in this are just impossible and ridiculous to assemble. Again, tactics in court by the Defense are trying to prove this by all means, but you know it just doesn t make sense.
3- All this supposedly is because of Avery's revenge on his first sentence. Apparently the police as something against him since he was a kid and now is framing him, according to the documentary creators. Let's just think simple here - It s not hard to get that this was a troublemaker, violent guy in his youth. Incompetence and stereotype wrongly made the cops assume he was the rapist. Eventually they would now hate him for the compensation / trials on them. But again, to make such a cinematic conspiracy is just insane.
4 - Yes, strange things still happened. The blood tube is on the top. The utterly stupid decisions of not crushing the car or keeping the key. The lack of any dna / blood on almost every place. But still, these sound 1/10 of the insanity of again having a massive conspiration for a guy who is on the hotspot.
5 - I feel sorry for the kid. One does not know at the end what was his involvement, and you can clearly see is just a very limited 16 year old kid who apparently was influenced by his grown up uncle. 50 years in jail? Again, go to point 1.
Why a 6? Because on one hand had me made my first review and on the other for the exact same reason :)
Cheers